Lighting for dance

• Autor(a) principal: Azevedo, Jonathan Peter de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/9692
• topic: Lighting; Dance; Methods for lighting dance; Lighting concepts; Luz; Dança; Métodos para iluminar dança; Conceitos de iluminação

The purpose of this project is to discover a method or methods to design lights for a dance choreography. It is divided in four parts. The first part is an general look at Stanley McCandless’s method for stage lighting along with an overview of the basic objectives of lighting for the stage and a brief analysis of the properties of light. This is followed by a look at how three light designers approach the work: Jean Rosenthal, Richard Pilbrow, and Francis Reid. Looking first at how they collaborate with choreographers in order to come up with concepts and how they then put them into practice. In part three an observation grid is created and applied in the analysis of three modern dance performances: Licht a dance by Conny Janssen with lighting by Reinier Tweebeeke; Shazam! a dance by Philippe Decouflé with lighting by Patrice Besombes; In the Upper Room a dance by Twyla Tharp with lighting by Jennifer Tipton. In part four, what was read and observed is put into practice with the creation of a light design for two dances, choreographed by Isabel Ariel, a choreographer and dance instructor at the Ginasiano dance school in Vila Nova de Gaia. Here the process is displayed from the first encounter, through the discussion of concepts and finally with the execution of the dances, complete with an analysis of what was successful and what was less so. The performance took place between the 2nd and 4th of March in the year 2011 at the school’s own facilities.